Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Maternal obesity in pregnancy associates with higher birthweight. A key pathway is through placental regulation of hormones controlling foetal growth. As excess foetal glucocorticoid exposure associates with lower birthweight and since placental Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF2) may be modulated by glucocorticoids, we hypothesised that the expression profiles of placental genes leading to reduced glucocorticoid exposure and increased IGF2 mRNA level correlate with ...

Introduction: Maternal distress, including poorer life satisfaction, increased anxiety and depression (A&D) symptoms, are worse in Severely Obese (SO) than lean pregnancy and may alter placental genes regulating foetal glucocorticoid exposure and placental growth. We hypothesised that the associations between increased maternal distress with changes in placental mRNA levels leading to a reduced placental barrier to maternal glucocorticoids, and altered placental IGF2, are ...

Background: The idiopathic growth hormone (GH) deficiency is defined as the shortest height (-2 SD) without any further pathologies, including a detailed hormonal and radiological evaluation.Objective and hypotheses: The evaluation of the efficiency of treatment with somatropin in children with idiopathic gh deficiency in Albania.Methods: The study is based on the survey of 50 children of different ages, diagnosed with idiopathic G...

Exposure of pregnant sheep to increased concentrations of testosterone during midgestation results in a PCOS-like condition in the female offspring that includes increased hepatic IGF1. The aim of this study was to investigate the molecular pathophysiology of this increase. We studied 11-month-old female offspring whose mother had been treated with testosterone propionate (TP: 100 mg) in oil (n=8), or oil control (n=4) twice weekly from day 62 to 102 gestatio...

Objective: Poor sleep quality is a prevalent health problem among patients with diabetes. Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is common in type 2 diabetic patients, and associated with morbidity and mortality. We aimed to investigate sleep quality among type 2 diabetes patients according to their metabolic syndrome status.Participants: This was an analysis of data collected from 189 adult type 2 diabetic patients.Methods: The patients were d...

While bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment strategy to maintain long-term weight-loss and to improve survival, it has not been shown, that bariatric surgery is as effective in craniopharyngeoma patients with hypothalamic obesity. We retrospectively analyzed weight loss and metabolic parameters in 7 craniopharyngeoma patients and 14 controls who underwent gastric banding surgery in five centers in Germany and Austria. The last before and the first patient after the...

Introduction: Clinical practice guidelines advocate testing the aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR) in specific circumstances only. Tests should be taken following abstinence from drugs associated with false results. We aimed to determine the appropriateness of testing locally and any associated wasted healthcare costs.Methods: We retrospectively evaluated ARR requests taken July-October 2019 and July-October 2021 in Swansea Bay University Health Board to dete...

Background: Somatostatin receptor (SSTR) expression has been characterized in well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors (NET). However, the understanding of receptor expression in various non-neuroendocrine solid tumors is limited. This study was performed to evaluate SSTR-2 in various cancers to provide a rational basis for SSTR-2 targeted anti-cancer therapies.Methods: Formalin-fixed paraffin, paraffin-embedded tissue was obtained from pathology archiv...

Mass spectrometry based clinical metabolomics needs standardization of analytical assays to improve future inter-laboratory comparability and to become a successful new and established technology in clinical routine laboratories such as mass spectrometry based therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) over the past 10 years. Steroid hormones are one of the most interesting endogenous metabolite class in clinical metabolomics today. Standardized determination of concentrations of stero...

Introduction: Turner syndrome is well known, but prognosis for 45,X/46,XX mosaicism under 30% of aneuploidy has not been established. We realised a retrospective study among women aged 21–43 years, to evaluate differences in clinical features and biological parameters between patients who had sex chromosome mosaicism diagnosed incidentally and controls women.Material and methods: Among infertile population, 71 women with sex chromosome mosaicism (45...